In this tutorial we’re going to look at Monitoring for the Cherry Garden framework on Tapestry — the quickest way to keep an eye on individual children, groups, or every child at once. For each area of learning you record a professional judgement — Concerns, No Concerns or Review — and the Group View lays those judgements out across your whole cohort, with the evidence one click away.

The Monitoring screen is shared with Cherry Garden Bridging — children assessed with either framework appear here, and the Bridging tab’s own Monitoring link opens the same view.

Getting there

Click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left of your screen, then select Monitoring from the panel that opens.

The Tapestry side menu with the Planning & Monitoring panel open, showing the Monitoring option
Planning & Monitoring › Monitoring in the side menu.

On the Monitoring page, select the Cherry Garden tab, then click Group View under the Monitoring heading on the right.

The Monitoring page on its Cherry Garden tab, with the Group View button under the Monitoring heading
Group View under Monitoring on the Cherry Garden tab.

Finding your children

The page opens on every child with Cherry Garden data. Two controls at the top narrow things down: the Search box, handy when you’re after one particular child, and Child Filters, which filters by cohort, group, key person, room, gender, EAL and more.

Beneath them, the totals summarise the judgements for everyone currently selected — per area, and across all areas. Every figure is a link: click, say, an area’s concerns count and the list below filters to just those children and areas.

The Cherry Garden Monitoring page with the Search box, the Child Filters button, and the clickable totals for 22 children across the six area columns
Search, Child Filters, and the clickable totals.

Monitoring always shows six area columns, labelled with their short codes — CLL, PD, MD, PSED, EAD and UW.

Recording judgements

Scroll past the totals and each child has a row of judgement buttons per area. No Concerns (green) is every child’s starting point; click Concerns (red) or Review (amber) to record your judgement for an area — it saves as you click, and the totals update to match. Under each area sit the links to the evidence: how many observations are linked to it, and its Timeline.

A child's Monitoring row with colour-coded Concerns, No Concerns and Review buttons per area, observation counts, Timeline links, and the Reflect and Reflect on this buttons
A child’s row — judgements per area, with the evidence links beneath.

The row also offers Reflect (a reflection about the child) and Reflect on this (a reflection tied to one area) — each opens a new reflection with the child and framework filled in for you.

Checking the evidence

Click an area’s observations link to see the observations behind it, with the statements and refinements each one recorded.

The observations window for one child and area, listing an observation with its statements and refinement chips
An area’s observations, one click from the grid.

Timeline shows the area’s judgement history in date order — who recorded what, and when — and has its own Export PDF and Export CSV buttons. The totals box offers a Timeline per area too, covering every child at once.

The Timeline window for one child and area, with Export PDF and Export CSV buttons and the judgement history in date order
The Timeline — judgement history, with its own exports.

Exporting and date ranges

At the bottom of the page, the Data Export panel downloads what you’re looking at — tick any of Export totals, Export assessments, Export reflection counts and Export observation counts, choose CSV or PDF, and click Export. Next to it, Date Range decides how far back the observation and reflection counts look: Current assessment period, Past twelve months or All available.

The Data Export panel with its four content checkboxes and CSV or PDF format choice, and the Date Range panel set to Current assessment period
Data Export and Date Range, at the foot of the page.

And that’s it! Monitoring gives you one screen to record your judgement on every child, area by area — with the observations, timelines and reflections that justify it never more than a click away.

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